My error was pointed out to me today. When I wrote about chikuwa recently, I may well have used the wrong name. In truth, this little sausage you see in the picture is chikuwa. Hollow white and slightly chewy, it has a sort of grilled appearance down the middle that doesn’t look entirely genuine.
Tonight I […]
Chikuwa fit into a category of never living foods such as vegemite, crab sticks (seafood extender) and space food sticks. There is no recognisable part of anything in them that convinces anyone that they are actually an edible food. There is nothing that tells you that they can safely be eaten or even that they […]
Last week I discovered a dish that I unwillingly loved. Tuna Cheek and Cheese. I say unwillingly, because I am not one of the “Cheese makes everything better” crowd and I found it hard to believe that a lump of cheese with tuna cheek wrapped around it, bread-crumbed and fried could be anything but disappointing. […]
Tonight I was after a 5 minute dinner and this is what we ended up with.
A couple of handfuls of frozen prawns.
Half a bunch of enoki mushrooms
An onion
A handful of green beans
4 cloves of garlic
A big squirt of honey
2 bunches of Udon noodles
It takes about 4 minutes to boil the noodles and about the same time […]
The next in our series on Japanese Matsuri food is an easy, chewy, portable and slightly anti social food - whole BBQ squid.
The cook simply cleans and slices half way through the whole squid before throwing it flat onto the BBQ plate. Depending on how long it has been on there it can either be raw and inedible, […]
Tako Yaki has nothing to do with the Mexican Taco that most of the world knows. That is unless you include the mess that it makes of your shirt front when you try to eat it on the run.
Tako Yaki is BBQ octopus balls. Now some would claim that octopus balls aren’t big enough to […]
There are probably as many recipes for miso soup as there are cooks in Japan, but yesterday I found a new favourite. I was having lunch at Yamamoto Sushi in Tsukuba and as a part of a lunch time promotion they brought around big bowls of Kame (crab) and Miso soup. It tasted like the […]
Because recipes for Salt and Pepper Squid seem to be everywhere these days, I am writing here about my own little variation on the theme. My variation is probably nothing that will ever win me any awards, but I think you will agree that the taste is worth it. It is a very simple recipe […]
I was hoping for a great recipe for my first post here at Noodles and Rice and I think I have found it. Last night a friend dropped by with some fish from her home town and proceeded to cook it for us. In literally less than 5 minutes she came, cooked and left leaving the fish simmering on the […]
I’m trying to figure out how to post a video on here. Yesterday we had Mee Krob and that was so much fun I just gotta share it with you. My kids were clamoring to “do it again, Mom”.
In the ’70’s, my parent’s go-to place for “fast food” (it wasn’t exactly […]
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